LinkedIn has announced the addition of 200 jobs in Dublin on the day its CEO, Jeff Weiner visited the company’s EMEA headquarters and met with Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Established in Ireland in 2010 with just three employees, LinkedIn has since grown to become one of Ireland’s leading technology employers. Today 1,000 employees work across all product lines and support over 50 markets, from the UK to as far as Poland, Turkey and South Africa. With this announcement 200 additional roles will be created, expanding the team to support ongoing growth in the region, with new roles in engineering, sales and sales support and customer operations. The growing engineering team in Ireland is focused on natural language processing and machine learning, in which Dublin is increasingly a centre of expertise. “At LinkedIn, we’re continuing to invest in the people and infrastructure required to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Ireland has proven to be a very strategic location for us to headquarter our EMEA operations, and we look forward to growing our footprint in Ireland by expanding our already 1000-person team with another 200 employees,” said Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO. The announcement comes ahead of the completion of LinkedIn’s EMEA HQ at Wilton Place, with construction set to finish in 2017. The new office space has been designed anticipating the needs of a changing workforce, with a range of innovative amenities such as an in-house gym, 300 bicycle parking spots, barista stations and a music room. “The availability of talent is the key differentiator for locations to win FDI. LinkedIn’s ability to scale its EMEA headquarters in Ireland at such an impressive rate in recent years is a great endorsement of the talented workforce available to innovative global companies. Dublin’s reputation internationally as a technology and internet hub is greatly strengthened by LinkedIn’s presence here,” said Martin Shanahan, CEO IDA Ireland.